The new Netflix miniseries Anne with an E, a fresh and very satisfying adaptation of the beloved Lucy Maud Montgomery book series begun with Anne of Green Gables, was compared by many reviewers, including myself, with the 1985 miniseries version that also was a wonderful adaptation. But here’s an even earlier basis for comparison: This is the 1934 movie version, starring Dawn Evelyn Paris as the young orphan who is sent, by mistake, to an elderly brother and sister who had requested the orphanage send a young boy to help with their farm chores. The young actress was so affected by the role she played that, before long, she changed her name, legally, to the name of her movie character, and spent the rest of her life known as Anne Shirley. That’s why, if you look up this movie’s credits today, the title part of Anne is played by Anne Shirley – yet it’s fiction. So much for “We’ll always have Paris…”